The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-22
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THERE are some signs of maudlin sympathy
with the Chicago Anarchists. Let us have none
of that. The men who plotted death to innocent
persons are more worthy of sympathy than
so many rattlesnakes.-New York Tribune.
If it is true that Mrs. Cleveland turned her
back to Governor Foraker at the Philadelphia
celebration to ''snpb' him, it is really too DAD.
If she thought he man to De wilted. why
didn't she look him straight in the eye and wilt
him2-Detroit Tribune.
1T ia certain that wise just concession
can be made to Anarchists who threaten REBEL
ion; one concession made in answer to a threat
will be but beginning of threats and conces-
sions which can only end in surrender to REBEL
ion.-Chicago Inter Ocean
Our German Socialists needed in the land
of their birth to rescue even Sunday as rest
day for German workinenen from the clutch OF
employers. The German government reports
that Sunday labor, on another day, is becom-
ing the rule.-New York Star.
THE Methodist ministers who decided yester-
day that DR.. McGlynn is 'tcalled to higher
duty" know very well that this duty. as he un-
derstands it and sets it FORTH is to teach and
hold Henry Georges doctrine about the owner
ship of land Possibly they will repent of their
hasty Endorsement of the George movement.
Methodism and Georgeism will not mix.-New
York Times.
WHEN the President gets into the great West
"A region heretofore unexplored by him-he
Will ses much that ought to impress upon him
the conviction that the chief macistracy of such
q nation is Of the highest distinction and
honor, and far above the selfish concerns Of
time-servng fiatterers, whose chief end is an
official appointment. Compared with coun-
Cincinnati Conn ercial Gazette.
WE propose that the law-abid,ng people of this
city, who want to see the number of saloons re-
duced and the horrors of the liquor traffic Gmin-
ished, shall fully understand the issue that is be-
ing made between the liquor men, with their
great corruption funds, and the Republican
party. But does it never strike fair minded
people among the Prohibitionists that the Re-
publican party, which they accuse of trucking
to the runs sellers, is the only party the rum
sellers attack2-New York Tribune.
SHALL. we accept the issue that foreign crmi-
nalty SO defianty and insolently tendersf Or
shall we avoid its acceptance2 There is mid
die We must accept it or avoid it. If
we accept it. the convicted Anarchist assassins
must hang. IF we avoid it, we must prostrate
ourselves huinbly in the presence of anarchy
put our mouths in the dirt. and say respectfully
to the hordes of foreign rutfians and criminals:
We acknowledge your mastery, and Will obey
your commandment not to execute our own law
in our own land.-Chicago Times.
IT is purely error to that any State Of the
Union has been shorn of power by the federal
government. The States and their citizens have
the fullest powers and liberties under the law of
the land and the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, so far from abrid gng these rights
and liberties. extend them and pledge the federal
power to their support The federal governments
asks nothing of US that it has not always asked
since the adoption of the Constitution a century
ago. Congress carefully avoids everything that
looks like trenchng on the rights of the States
and confines its legislation. it should, to mat
tiers of national importance. Francisco
Chronicle
THE demeanor of the American nation. as
whole, justi6es the sacrifices which the people
offered. The sentiment throug hout the republic
regarding the occasion of last weeks anniversary
is the apology for the tremendous butchers bill
on both sides. If in the annals of his
tory was waeed with more iron obstinacy was
so relentleasly murderous in its operations,
neither has any ever left behind it, the
WHOLE less rancor and vindictiveness, that
the American Constitution NAV claim the merit
as it is willing TO bear the burden. Even in the
confederate States few persist in lamenting that
their effort after disunIon was forcby frustrated.
London Times
THE Southern people perpetualiy re-
minded by the Democratic politicians that the
Republican party is antagonistIc toward South
ern interests. The Southern people are fully
convinced that the Democratic party is not an
tagon:stic TO the South. The nomination OF
Southern man for Vice-president by the Re-
publcans would remove the impression that the
Republican party is sectional Such nomina-
ton by the Democrats would only confirm the
impression in the North that the Democratic
party works sectional lines for the nainten-
ance of solid South which stands in the way
of true aud practical oblitaration of all sec
tional demarcations. Sentinel